YouSaid · the spoken record

Ronda Rousey

lines on the record: 111
first: 2024-04-08
most recent: 2024-04-08
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

Every line below is reproduced as it was said and linked to the record it came from. Nothing here is summarised or generated. Directory · Search · Corrections

“Yeah. Yeah. No, I mean, they were all like, what was it in Killbill that he was talking about that Bill lost his father early, so he collected father figures. Yeah, I collected them. None of them were as good as the original. But yeah, I think that constant need for validation from a father figure was something that I was constantly pursuing. But, you know, that philosophy of coaching of, you know, You see the Russian figure skaters, the gymnasts that never smile because they've been like beaten into iron by that was basically the philosophy of all the coaches that I had. They would see someone like Bella Caroli and be like, oh my God, like he was their idol. And so they're all trying to emulate that.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Stop talking to him in an argument, then they would end up leaking into training the next day. And so it just became like really like taxing of my energy in general. But I can't really think of a single coach relationship that I had that was perfect. But it worked, you know? That's the one problem that I always had like debating. I'm like, well, it's working. I'm getting better. And so you would just put up with it because there was no perfect option out there.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But yeah, like I had to like make a rule at one point. I was like, you're not allowed to FaceTime me because I don't want you to just FaceTime me and know where I am at all times and what I'm doing. Because like, it's my fucking business. It's my privacy. And it was just, he was always trying to push that boundary. Now I was always pushing back and stuff like that. But I was like, I don't know. A lot of times I like, I'm like, I just want to train like I don't, I would be just trying to like placate him because if I like just.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, a lot of it was like he just wanted to know where I was all the time. And like, I needed to be constantly available and stuff like that. And or else I would like end up turning into like a big argument or something like that. And I would just end up just trying to do anything that I could to not get in an argument.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To have very distinct boundaries. A lot of times your coach is someone that you're, you know, is tough on you, but they're also like they care about you. They're a parent. They're a brother. They're a coach too. But a lot of times it becomes like. An overbearing family member and a coach, and you can't beat both. That's why my mom didn't want to beat my coach. She didn't want to have to beat my mom and my coach because being both of those at the same time is inevitably unhealthy. And when we put boundaries in place of like, okay, this is what your job is and you do not do anything outside of that You know, training was better than never a relationship was better than ever, but I think a lot of these lines and these boundaries get blurred and they need to be very defined in order for it to work out.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like in school, you can have a teacher, someone comes in to watch the teacher teach to grade them on their teaching. Like, nobody does this for coaching and, you know, so I would hear these stories about like these sumo coaches that would kill their athletes training them. And I'd be like, yeah, you know, I could see how that could happen. And it's just, it's, it's not one person. It's not one sport. It's everywhere. And there's like, I can't say that I have all the answers for it, but I can say that like coaching in general creates a really unhealthy power, like imbalance. How I was able to take my relationship with my coach Edwin and take it from off the rails back on track is.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think it kind of taught me from a young age to just How to diffuse coaches that were getting out of hand. And not, because if I stood up for myself, it would just make it worse. And so it just kind of like taught me to like, okay, I got to like get this person in a good mood all the time or I had to like butter them up or I have to like strategically find my way to like out of being berated or something like that. And so I think it's not so much one individual that's a huge problem. I think like the whole system is the problem and that it really reinforces these like in these power imbalances that are inevitably taken and advantage of that all these coaches have free reign of their little fiefdoms and a lot of these athletes don't have any other option. And so like I don't see how”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Not as bad as previous coaches. So that's why I put up with a lot because I felt like I at least had a say that I could talk back. The other coaches would just, you know, like little Jimmy, my first coach, literally like dislocated my jaw as I was a little kid. I threw him once in front of everybody and laughed because I thought I was awesome. And he threw me on the benches on top of the table at everybody else's feet in front of all these people. And, you know, Big Jim had like grabbed me by the throat before to like drive his point home that women can't defend themselves. And so this is behavior that I'd been conditioned to tolerate since I was like a little girl. And Edmund was of that same like Eastern European kind of like school of thought of like you have to be like really tough and in order to bring the best out of people.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, honestly I can't Of a single coach I had like a great relationship with this is like A lot of the coaches were of that bellacroly kind of generation of like they thought that being abusive to the athletes is what gave them the best results and that was kind of what was like in vogue at the time. And like that, as an athlete, you're just kind of like, all right, well, this is what I have to deal with in order to be the best, and especially with like these. These sports where you have no other choice, like this is the national team coach and you have to get their approval and put other shit to be able to fight at this level. And so Edmund was”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I didn't tell anybody. I didn't. It was one of those things I just didn't want to like. Face up to having any weakness in myself and also like Evan would have made me stop. I didn't want to stop. I didn't want anyone to be making that decision for me. I didn't want to tell the company that I was having neurological symptoms because then they wouldn't let me continue to fight. I didn't want those decisions to be taken out of my hands.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was the goal? The goal was I had to be able to finish the person off immediately because that was the only way that I could fight is to not take any damage.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I just had to stay silent about it for years and let people make their own assumptions about me and Now, it was tough because in some ways I've never been better as a fighter. I've never had a better grasp of everything than I ever had. I'd never been faster, stronger, everything else. But, you know, you only have so many hits that you can take. And unfortunately, I took the vast majority of them as a kid doing”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So I just didn't have the hardware to continue fighting. And a lot of people would say like, oh, you're a fucking quitter, you're this, this, or that. And it's really difficult because I never had been more skilled as a fighter. I'd never been better in my life. But I just, you know, I just neurologically wasn't capable of continuing to fight at that level. And I couldn't say anything about it then because I wanted to go and do pro wrestling. And they already have their own controversy that they had to deal with with wrestlers having, you know, CTE and all kinds of damage from concussions. And so it's such a volatile subject that I just I couldn't say anything about it and I couldn't say anything about it leading into my last fight because then I'd be basically telling the other person that putting a target on my head literally so”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It wasn't like that was my game plan or anything like that. I was like completely disabled. And when I tried to fight again and I was like, okay, I would give myself a break and I'll make sure the mouth got perfect. At this time, I'm not going to knock myself out right before the fight and all those things. And the same thing. I just got tapped and I was out, you know, even if I was out on my feet, I was out.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The information that it could give me. And so I knew that if she knew that I was hurt, I wouldn't be able to defend myself. And so I had to keep coming forward without knowing how far away she was and not being fully, you know, hold of my facilities just to keep the fight going, hoping that I would recover, but I just couldn't. And so I think that that's one of the things that Really dug at me for so long that so many people were saying, Oh, Rona's game plan was bad or whatever this. And they didn't know that I wasn't present. I was like just trying to survive. I couldn't see how far away she was.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I had to keep it a secret from everybody, my coaches, Dana, even like myself. I just didn't want to face up to it. I just thought that I could keep it going forever. And so I That, like, I think was the most frustrating thing to me that, like, in my My first loss, I got tapped in the beginning and I'd fallen down the stairs a week or so, like maybe a week or so before that knocked myself out falling down the stairs at my house and then didn't say anything, went to the fight anyway, had a horrible weight cut, had the wrong mouth guard, which didn't have the protection on the back of the bottom teeth. So the first time she taps me, my teeth get knocked loose and I'm out on my feet like when I say out on my feet, it means that like I have no depth perception, basically. And I'm at a very limited capacity of what my brain can, um,”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That I don't take any damage. And Got to a point where I fought Sarah McMahon and she barely tapped me and I obviously had a concussion afterward. I couldn't bear to look at the lights. I had to have everyone turn the lights off. And I was looking for a way out, you know, because I know I couldn't sustain that forever. But yeah, it's got to the point where if I got like tapped at all with the, you know, the point says Stephanie McMahon slapped me and gave me a concussion, you know, and a woman and... Has never been a fighter in her life, and even has past her slapping prime, if she can slap me across the face and give me a concussion, you know, I shouldn't be fighting anymore.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was really easy for me to get concussion symptoms. And I'd rested for a couple years, you know, so at first it wasn't so bad, but it just got worse and worse and worse with time, even if I'm winning a fight and, you know, 14 seconds and the other person doesn't touch me. There's 50 rounds of sparring that went into that training camp. And you're wearing like a headgear and gloves, which are meant to protect you cosmetically, but these gloves are 14 ounces and you're wearing this headgear solar, your brain is, you know, suspended in fluid. The larger the thing is, like if it's 14 ounces, it's easier actually to give you a concussion when you're sparring. And it's the kind of thing that I didn't want to like say anything about, you know. I didn't want to address it myself or any kind of weakness to myself. And I just kept telling myself that I just have to be perfect and not allow these people to touch me at the create this fighting style that's so efficient.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, that's the kind of thing that like, you know, leads to CTE all these football players that we're dealing with were having concussions repeatedly and not being allowed to rest. And so by the time I got into MMA, like this is the kind of injury that accumulates over time. You don't, you know, it doesn't go away. Every time you get a concussion, it's And so by the time I got into MMA, I”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I mean, people didn't really know about CTE back when I was doing judo and how I get concussions all the time and just be told that, you know, my head hurts. I have photo vision. I would say like stuff like that. And they'd be like, just stop being a pussy and like keep training. And so I would get, you know, dozens, dozens of concussions and never be allowed to stop. And I would have to keep training through them. And the symptoms would persist for weeks. So the point that I was experiencing concussion symptoms more often than I wasn't for a 10 year judo career.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And then they didn't equate to the actual happiness and they had to, I thought that if I could make my past into something that I'd done all these great things, that it would dictate my future. But I had to kind of figure out that like making myself happy with every day that I'm living individually is what I needed to do. And there's no amount of accomplishments that you can add to, you know, your trophy shelf that are going to equate to being happy forever in the future. It just is impossible.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think I had to get to the top of several mountains to realize that the mountain climbing wasn't really going to be what made me happy. And I had this idea that if I collected or hoarded achievements that somehow, well, someday they would all add up to happiness that I would be able to like. I did this thing. So now I could be happy forever. Like my idea was if I'm like the first American to win the Olympics in judo, then I will be happy for the rest of my life. And it's not It didn't really work like that. Like I could, yeah, achieve these great things and it would make me happy for a time, but your life goes on past that. And so I kind of had to figure out after hoarding all these bucket list experiences that I would actually end up just forgetting at times. Like someone had to remind me the other day. Remember when you flew with a Thunderbirds? I'm like, oh yeah.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I think it started out as something that drove me and then it ended up being something that held me back that I had to kind of shake myself from. But, you know, I also benefited greatly from it. So I'm not saying I regret anything, but I know that it wasn't like a sustainable model for me to be happy in the long run.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“After I got taxed on it $10,000 and got taxed on it. I actually bitched about it so much in the media when I was doing MMA that they got rid of that tax, but still you'd only get $10,000.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I didn't fit the very narrow scope of what was considered attractive at that time. And now it's like considered really cool for, you know, women to have muscles. Now all the models have stomach definition and stuff like that. And are doing boxing and all this stuff and want to look toned. But that wasn't the case back then. That wasn't the case back then. That was something that I got teased for a lot.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In school. It wasn't cool for, you know, little girls to be muscular back then. And so before I dropped out at sixteen, you know, I I was really muscular and people would like grab at my arms and make fun of me all the time to the point that I would just kind of like I would wear a zippa hoodie all the time no matter how hot it was I always try to like cover up my arms how muscular it was which is one reason why when I got older that trying to like fight that that idea that being muscular was masculine was something that became important to me because that you know If you were a teenage girl in the early 2000s, it was a pretty unhealthy standard that was presented to us.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Was the only thing I could do, and I was a little girl that was growing, you know, I like grew four inches and like doubled my weight in a short period of time. And so I just couldn't stay at a lower weight. So, but you have all this outside pressure to be able to maintain the same weight, even though as an athlete you're growing and putting on muscle and even getting taller. So it was kind of like fighting nature.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I remember the first time I did it was I had like a childhood coach or something took me out one day and he like basically like forced me to have a chocolate shake and he was like no you got to have a chocolate shake come on it's fine and you train all the time you had to relax and have a chocolate shake and I felt like so guilty about the chocolate shake that and I had to be like make weight or something like that weekend or something there's no way I would be able to make it and so like I made myself throw up the chocolate shake and it was actually like it was it was cold it didn't hurt it was that bad you know and I was like oh well that's that wasn't even that terrible and so I thought I was like a one-time thing but the next time I like ate too much and I felt like really guilty about it it just became like you know the panic button of if I ate too much and I had a deadline coming up where I had to be a certain weight I felt like it”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, basically I had to be await on a deadline very often, and it's not really a wait that I could healthily stay at, and so I would have to cut weight to get there. And I just, it started to give me like a really unhealthy relationship with food where I would like hoard food while I was cutting weight. Candy bars and stuff like that. And then after I made weight, I would like gorge myself on it. Ellie, I didn't know anything. I didn't have any resources to help me out with it. And so I just kind of spiraled into a disorder.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It was tough, it was hard. I remember being homesick a lot. It was really isolating, you know, I all I did was train all day. There wasn't any other kids my age. I was always around people older than me, you know, part of being like a sport prodigy is no one your age is on your level, you know. So I was always training when people older. I also at the same time felt like I was in the middle of my montage to do something like amazing, you know, my um I thought I was going to shock the world and be the first American to win the gold medal in June at seventeen and so no, it was worth it to me.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, God, and on and off for years I was up there. Well, Big Jim was one of the best coaches in the country, and he trained his son little Jimmy, who had just won the nineteen ninety nine World Championships in Judea. And I know Judo's not that big in the US, so the places that are good at it and have good coaches and good people to train with are few and far between. And Pedro's Judo was one of those places.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“So important, but yeah, being able to understand something completely is something that nags me if I don't completely understand it. I have to like keep going back to it.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't think it's so much perfectionism as it is mastery. I want to like master and understand something completely. It's kind of like an unfinished puzzle, you know? I can live in squalor. I don't think the perfectionism of everything around me is really a...”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And so I would keep drawing it over and over and over again to try and get it. And I guess that's like, you know, my personality, I guess, it's something that I can't really control for better or for worse.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I would do it for hours on end, trying to get it absolutely perfect and not realize all that time had passed. And sometimes it's like a negative thing or I'll fixate on something like something stupid I did it like several years ago and not be able to stop myself from thinking about it. But it's also the same thing that would keep me training on a single technique for hours on end, just trying to get it right. And my mom said when I was a kid, I would draw the same picture over and over and over again. I remember it was like a bunny in the middle and there was like a bush, a bush and a tree and a tree on each side and like a sun with the cool glasses, right? My mom would be like, why do you keep drawing this picture over and over thousands of times I would draw the same drawing. And she said my answer was that I'm just trying to get it to match the picture in my head. I couldn't understand why when I thought of a bunny and a bushes and all that stuff and I drew it. It didn't look exactly like a bunny.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“But it wasn't like Gracie Jiu-Jitsu where they like show you like, oh, this is the way and this is the structure. I was very open-ended. And so I was kind of like, I had to create like my own like system, basically my own fighting style and everything like that. And that was, I think, the most interesting to me that I was like creating a philosophy and everything and concepts and how did I piece everything together. And so I think that was the most interesting part. I could train for hours and hours and hours and hours and not realize that I'm tired because I'm trying to piece something together. But I also, I think we call it like opposite ADD where I like fixate on things for like hours on end and I can't get off of it. But if you tell me to like run, you know, I'm like, oh my God, the whole time I'm tired. I'm tired. I'm more tired than I was. But if you tell me like if I had to try and figure out how to like do a certain punch a certain right way or do a certain throw a certain right way.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Mastering the art of judo, like figuring it out, it was like endlessly intriguing to me at the time. And I remember when I was 16, I like realized while I was, you know, doing Neywazo, which is fighting on the ground that the end of one move was the beginning of another one. And that's when I moved from like trying to memorize all these separate techniques to trying to combine them into like a path and like a web. And I didn't come up and Newaza and Judo is not the focus of the sport really. Maybe it's like 20% of the time people spend on the ground, maybe less.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, winning felt good, but I also, it really hurt for me to lose. I hated like my first tournament I lost, I like locked myself in a room for like a week. I was so upset. But I was willing to get my heart broken. I was willing to care about something so much that my heart would be broken if I didn't, you know, achieve it. And I don't know. I think I felt like the idea of being better at something than everybody else made me special somehow. It was like proof. And it was alson't like I was dragging myself through doing it to be great at something because that's what it was. I really enjoyed like.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, there had to be some sort of a genetic factor. Because like my mom and my dad are both good athletes. But I think, yeah, a part of it was personality-wise, but I just really wanted to win. I had that, I cared.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, I can't really say how she felt, but I mean, I was kind of like identified as being like a prodigy of Judo pretty young. And she wanted to kind of take an outside role of making sure that I was training with all the right people at the right time. She wasn't the person that was on, like she, of course, taught me everything that she could. But she didn't really want to be that overbearing coach mom on the mat. It's like you go here train with this person, you go hear a tray with that person was like the overarching like architect. career and everything like that.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Like addicted to that feeling, I guess. So I actually dropped out of school when I was sixteen to be able to train and do judo full time and move away from home to train full time.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, so after a little bit of that, I was like, I want to do something else. And my mom, she trained here in the 80s back when she did judo. And so she went to go visit a bunch of her old teammates that had all gone and opened up clubs of their own. And I went and tried it. And I remember my first day. I didn't even have a hair tie. My hair was all over the place crazy. And I was like trying to figure out how to do judo. And I had the most fun that I ever had. Because I love that there was no one way to do it. If, you know, if it worked, it was right. And it was kind of like mentally intriguing. You have to figure it out. You're like solving a puzzle. You're having a conversation with other person, you know. And so because it was so mentally engaging, I think that's why I liked it so much. When I won my first tournament, I got that feeling of winning that I didn't quite get in swimming. I was one of the top kids in the state, but I wouldn't like really win swimming meats. And so first time I won something, I got.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, I was swimming here But I wasn't so much into swimming, it's kind of boring. And I didn't like waking up in the morning and jumping in a cold pool.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That was just how encouraging my parents were, you know, if they're like, Oh, you want to swim? You're gonna win the Olympics in swimming, you know? And so I was just always fed that expectation that I could do everything.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, he mentions that kids that lose a parent before they're 10 actually end up being more successful statistically later in life. And it's like, well, he's the one that delved into it into his book. But, you know, when I was reading, I'm like, oh, you know, I could see. I could see how that makes sense in a way. The aproxia and stuff, like really pushing me towards sports and like being physical and things like that and being the youngest of the sisters. So, you know, I was the one that was getting beat on at the house. So it made me tougher and wanted to constantly be able to like prove myself as, you know, not just being a little baby, but deserving of respect and stuff like that and those kind of like made me into the kind of kid that would when I first started swimming I wanted to win the Olympics and swimming when I first started judo I was like I just want to win the Olympics in this now and”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What's most ingrained in me from being a kid? I think like, you know, like losing a parent is a huge formative event. Have you ever read a blink by Malcolm Gladwell?”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“He was the original armbar lady. She actually tore her knees out when she was seventeen and had to learn how to win, basically just on the ground. So she was the one that would always win by armbar. Yeah, and she was kind of like taught me how she did it. And, you know, I added to it and learned things as well, but it's become like kind of a family heirloom as the arm bar. Yeah. Family arm bar.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“In everything, she got a perfect score on the SATs at 16, graduated college at nineteen. Then she won the World Championships in Judo the first American to ever win the World Championships in Judea while she was working as a single mother engineer and getting her PhD in educational psychology.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And my sisters didn't ever really want to talk about it. And I think. Yeah, no one really wanted to talk about it at all. It wasn't like the kind of thing that we would bring up all the time.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, that's the only time that he would really be gone away from the house for extended periods of times because he had like a business trip or something. And so that was just kind of like what I told myself to cope for a while. But then I found out later that my grandfather committed suicide as well. So he was a second generation suicide.”
2024-04-08 · The Diary of a CEO · Ronda Rousey (Greatest Women's Fighter Ever): The Truth Behind My Fighting, I Kept This A Secret My Entire Career, WWE Is A Mess & Vince McMahon Is Still Running It! · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT